Gerald Ford on the University of Michigan football team, 1933. The team won two national championships and his teammates voted him MVP. A fellow football player remarked that his teammates "felt he was one guy who could stay and fight for a losing cause."

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Richard Nixon played the violin in his high school orchestra.

He could also play saxophone, accordion, and piano. Later when president, he presented Duke Ellington with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House on the musician's birthday, and then both played and sang 'Happy Birthday' for him.

Lyndon B. Johnson at his family home in the Texas hill country near Stonewall, Texas, 1915.

After finishing a year of college, he taught at a primarily Mexican-American school in southern Texas. Recalling the experience after he signed the Higher Education Act of 1965, he said, "I shall never forget the faces of the boys and the girls in that little Welhausen Mexican School, and I remember even yet the pain of realizing and knowing then that college was closed to practically every one of those children because they were too poor."

John F. Kennedy is third from left, standing with the Harvard Swim Team.

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A young Dwight D Eisenhower (1890 - 1969) on his graduation from West Point Military Academy in New York.

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Postcard photo of Harry S. Truman taken in France during World War I. On the other side of the postcard it said, "Given to John A. Hatfield in France in 1918 - returned to Harry S. Truman in January, 1962."

Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States, as he appeared at age 21 in 1886. He then owned a newspaper, the Marion Star.

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A young Woodrow Wilson. Wilson's diplomatic actions during and after WWI have left their mark on virtually all US foreign policy from the end of that war to today.

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Theodore Roosevelt ranching and hunting in the Dakota Territory in 1885.

When he was younger, TR had a weak heart and was advised by a doctor from going up the stairs too quickly. "Doctor," he replied, "I'm going to do all the things you tell me not to do. If I've got to live the sort of life you have described, I don't care how short it is."

An early and undated photograph of Grover Cleveland. He's the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms.

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Benjamin Harrison, probably photographed during his college years, circa 1850.

His grandfather, William Henry Harrison, was elected president (although he died from pneumonia 31 days into office) and his great-grandfather, Benjamin Harrison V, was one of the Founding Fathers.

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Chester Arthur, then a young lawyer, before his marriage to Ellen Herndon in 1859.

A few years earlier, he successfully represented a black woman, Elizabeth Jennings Graham, who was denied a seat on a streetcar in New York City due to her race. This helped lead to the desegregation of all New York transit systems in 1865.

Rutherford B. Hayes and his wife on their wedding day, December 30, 1852.

Later, he was nominated to run for Congress while he was still in the Army during the Civil War. He accepted, but would not campaign, saying: "An officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon his post to electioneer... ought to be scalped."